FY 2026 Congressional Budget Justification Calls for Defunding Title VIII Programs and Eliminating NINR

The Administration for a Healthy America (AHA) released its inaugural Congressional Budget Justification for Fiscal Year 2026, which includes merging the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), along with other programs, into the larger AHA program. Additionally, this budget allocates no funding for the Advanced Nursing Education (ANE), Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR), and Nurse Faculty Loan Programs (NFLP) while explicitly eliminating the Nursing Workforce Diversity Program. The budget maintains level funding for the Nurse Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Program at $92.635 million for FY 2026.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its Fiscal Year 2026 Congressional Budget Justification, which includes the elimination of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). AACN has created a funding chart tracking the changes in federal support for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs and NINR.

See also AACN’s statement on the President’s “skinny” budget from May 5, AACN’s statement on the President’s budget from June 3, and the FY 2026 Appropriations funding chart that we update regularly.